Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Licence Break

[Dan Kuykendall]

I have sent the following message to them
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Subject: GroupWare

I was excited to hear about your groupware product which appears to be 
based on phpGroupWare. I am the co-founder of the phpGroupWare project 
and wish your business the best. My hope is that you will be able to 
make enough to have a developer on staff who can join the phpGroupWare 
development team to help improve the program for our next versions.

We have great things planned for the next release and any help your 
company can offer by way of a developer or documentation help is welcome.

Im also interested in any improvements you have done so far, so would 
appreciate a copy of the source code to your release version so that I 
can look into merging your changes into our official CVS tree.

I look forward to the opportunity to collaborate on improving 
phpGroupWare together so that you can offer your customers a better 
product and so that the community who has put in so much effort can 
benefit in return.

Dan Kuykendall (aka Seek3r)
of the phpGroupWare Project.

Jason Wies wrote:
> If they're just running a hosting service then they don't even have to send the 
> source code if someone requests it.  The user is only entitled to the source 
> code if they also have the binary or part of the release, which is not true in 
> the case of hosting services.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
>
> It does look they're selling it/giving it away though since they list system 
> requirements.  Even that is ok by the GPL under most circumstances.  Not much 
> point in speculating though, hopefully someone who speaks Portugese will be 
> able to find out for sure and let us know.
>
> Jason Wies aka Zone
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:33:46AM -0700, Dan Kuykendall wrote:
>
> > I dont see that they are doing anything wrong. The code is GPL'd so they 
> > are welcome to use it.
> > The only two requirements are
> > 1) If someone _request_ the source code, then they must send that person 
> > the code.
> > 2) They must include the license header in the sourcecode files.
> >
> > If they fail to do either of these things they may be in a GPL 
> > vilolation, but nothing I see indicates this to be the case.
> > We could test by making a request for their source.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Jean Everson Martina wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > >         I don't know if this the right place to post, but I've found here in 
> > > brazil one
> > > company using phpgroupware, as one of their products, without mentionig anything
> > > about the phpgroupware project. I think this is against the phpgroupware's GPL
> > > license.
> > >
> > > plese take a look:
> > >
> > > http://www.interage.com.br/produtos/produtos.htm
> >
> >
> >
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